Sylvia Waugh
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Sylvia Waugh is a British
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 children's
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Biography

Sylvia Waugh was born in Gateshead
Gateshead
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, County Durham
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 in Northern England
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 in 1935. She attended Gateshead Grammar School
Gateshead Grammar School
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. Having worked full-time as a grammar teacher for seventeen years, Waugh began her writing career in her late fifties. In 1993, she published her first book, The Mennyms, that eventually evolved into an entire series, which appeared in seventeen languages. The Ormingat books received very good critical reviews and have been published in Japanese (all three books) and Spanish (Space Race).

Awards

The Mennyms was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal
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. It also won the following recognitions:
  • The Guardian Award
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     in 1994
  • The Birmingham Readers & Writers Children's Book Award - a new prize, selected by schoolchildren
  • An official commendation and the Silver Kiss (CPNB) for the Dutch 'Mennyms under Siege'
  • A certificate from the American Hungry Mind Review naming it one of its 'Children's Books of Distinction'
  • American Parenting
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    magazine's 'Reading Magic Awards' - one of the top ten children's books in the USA for 1994, and one of the ten books of the decade that 'best withstand the test of time'.
  • The whole series was awarded the Kinderbuchpreis 2000 in Vienna.

External links

  • http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/w/sylvia-waugh/
  • http://www.answers.com/topic/sylvia-waugh
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